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Forbes - Markets

On Friday, Athene listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange, raising $1.1. billion at a $7.4 billion valuation and setting the stage for a growth spurt that should fuel Apollo’s bottom line for years to come.

From banking to buyouts, trading to takeovers, these 40 financiers dominate the world of money. The hedge fund managers, private equity moguls and lenders who control the flow of trillions of dollars around the global economy impact just about all of us one way or another. To compile the2016 Money Masters list, we considered people who run businesses on both the buy and the sell sides of high finance. On Wall Street, money talks, so we judged our candidates on four factors: net worth, assets undermanagementor overseen, three-year track records and influence onmarkets.

Even after a run up in asset prices, the chief of the world's biggest private equity firm is finding ways to put money to work around the world, including recent real estate deals in India, where Blackstone Group now owns 15 million square feet of office space in major cities. "If we end up buying more near a top, that’s never as much fun as buying everything at bottoms,” says Schwarzman. "What's relevant is that you're always outperforming."

The legendary hedge fund manager thinks markets have relaxed because of China's more stimulatory policy. “As far as equity markets are concerned, it’s a fair value market that in lieu of any bad events like a British exit or a surprising election result—which is a bit less the case now—you are going to get a U.S. equities market that is going to grind higher," says Tepper. "The question will be at what point will interest rates go up? I think the Fed is going to be very very patient because they have a view that they can contain inflation, but it’s much harder to create inflation in the world. So that is driving my view that they will take their time.” Adds Tepper on the Federal Reserve: “They have said it a million times but the market maybe only now seems to be recognizing that is the case—that they are going to let some degree of inflation come back before they try to kill it.”

The man with the keys to America's largest bank, Dimon oversees an institution that moves $5 trillion a day. JPMorgan is navigating volatile global markets, but Dimon is thinking bigger about bad policies like an outdated tax code, which he says creates more risk than anything on his bank's balance sheet. "We have serious issues that we need to address – even the United States does not have a divine right to success," Dimon said in a letter he wrote in April.

Buffett’s best tip for Forbes readers today? "Read ‘The Intelligent Investor’ and during major market declines,” he says, “read it again.” Buffett has long been a devotee of Benjamin Graham’s book on value investing. In his 2016 investor letter, Buffett told Berkshire Hathaway shareholders that the babies being born in America today “are the luckiest crop in history.”

Investing is hard enough, but Fink worries the world’s central banks are making it harder with near-zero, and even negative, interest rates. Such actions “are severel[...]

Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indicator called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which measures momentum [...]

In this series, we look through the most recent Dividend Channel ''DividendRank'' report, and then we cherry pick only those companies that have experienced insider buying within the past six months. The officers and directors of a company tend to have a unique insider's view of the business, and presumably [...]

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Insys Therapeutics Inc (NASD: INSY), where a total volume of 3,885 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 388,500 underlying shares (given that every [...]

Looking at options trading activity among components of the Russell 3000 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Cheniere Energy Inc. (AMEX: LNG), where a total volume of 14,405 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 1.4 million underlying shares (given that [...]

Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Altria Group Inc (NYSE: MO), where a total of 30,904 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 3.1 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 40.7% of MO's average daily trading volume over [...]

The best performing sector as of midday Friday is the Healthcare sector, up 1.1%. Within the sector, Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASD: ALXN) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE: BMY) are two large stocks leading the way, showing a gain of 5.4% and 3.3%, respectively. Among healthcare ETFs, one ETF following the [...]

The worst performing sector as of midday Friday is the Services sector, showing a 0.4% loss. Within that group, Kohl's Corp. (NYSE: KSS) and Urban Outfitters, Inc. (NASD: URBN) are two of the day's laggards, showing a loss of 3.4% and 3.2%, respectively. Among the largest ETFs, one ETF closely [...]

Among the underlying components of the S&P 500 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Priceline Group Inc. (NASD: PCLN), where a total of 11,539 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 1.2 million underlying shares. That amounts to about 256.7% of PCLN's average daily trading volume over [...]

Qualcomm recently announced the commercial sampling and the live demonstration of the world’s first 10nm server processors. The company seems to be on track to deliver its chips for the server processor market. Earlier this year, the company had announced plans to enter into a joint-venture with a Chinese province [...]

Quaker Oats, PepsiCo‘s subsidiary, has tied up with Chef’d, an online meal-kit marketplace, to offer a breakfast-based meal kit. According to our estimates, the Quaker Oats segment accounts for nearly 5% of PepsiCo’s valuation and in 2016 this segment will account for nearly 4% of the company’s revenues. While we [...]

Adam Karr: Orbis was founded in 1990 and manages about $30 billion today through a handful of long-only, absolute return and multi-asset strategies. Orbis Global Equity is our flagship strategy and represents about 60 to 70% of our total assets under management. Our investment philosophy is pretty simple: we strive to [...]

The private-equity fund manager is the subject of multi-year probes by the Department of Justice and Department of Defense, according to a source familiar with the matter along with declarations filed by SEC lawyers in its administrative proceeding against Tilton over fraud allegations.

The Coca-Cola Company announced Friday that the board of directors has approved a plan that will see Muhtar Kent step down from his role as CEO on May 1, 2017. He will hand his title to James Quincey, who currently serves as the company's president and chief operating officer.

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 12/13/16, Comerica, Inc. (NYSE: CMA), General Growth Properties Inc (NYSE: GGP), and RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: RNR) will all trade ex-dividend for their respective upcoming dividends. Comerica, Inc. will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.23 on 1/1/17, General [...]

On 12/13/16, Goldcorp Inc (Toronto: G) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.02, payable on 12/23/16. As a percentage of G's recent stock price of $17.73, this dividend works out to approximately 0.11%. Click here to find out which 9 other Canadian stocks going ex-dividend you should know about, [...]

On 12/13/16, Cenovus Energy Inc. (Toronto: CVE) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.05, payable on 12/30/16. As a percentage of CVE's recent stock price of $20.86, this dividend works out to approximately 0.24%. Click here to find out which 9 other Canadian stocks going ex-dividend you should know [...]

On 12/13/16, EnCana Corp (Toronto: ECA) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.015, payable on 12/30/16. As a percentage of ECA's recent stock price of $17.04, this dividend works out to approximately 0.09%. Click here to find out which 9 other Canadian stocks going ex-dividend you should know about, [...]

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 12/13/16, Albemarle Corp. (NYSE: ALB), US Silica Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SLCA), and EnCana Corp (NYSE: ECA) will all trade ex-dividend for their respective upcoming dividends. Albemarle Corp. will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.305 on 1/2/17, US Silica [...]

Can the major indices achieve new all-time highs Friday as the post-election party rolls on? Possibly, but be on the lookout for pre-weekend profit taking. This month’s Santa Claus rally continues in full gear, with record highs again Thursday for the major indices. It was the fifth-straight session of advances, and [...]

In recent trading, shares of Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) have crossed above the average analyst 12-month target price of $54.17, changing hands for $54.43/share. When a stock reaches the target an analyst has set, the analyst logically has two ways to react: downgrade on valuation, or, re-adjust their target price [...]

In recent trading, shares of Applied Materials, Inc. (NASD: AMAT) have crossed above the average analyst 12-month target price of $32.70, changing hands for $32.71/share. When a stock reaches the target an analyst has set, the analyst logically has two ways to react: downgrade on valuation, or, re-adjust their target [...]

In recent trading, shares of Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) have crossed above the average analyst 12-month target price of $36.35, changing hands for $36.65/share. When a stock reaches the target an analyst has set, the analyst logically has two ways to react: downgrade on valuation, or, re-adjust their target price [...]